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Parenting Not Policing: Managing strong-willed children and helping them succeed.
Dr. Robert A. Weaver, III, Ph.D., Director of Weaver Center in Wayland, MA and Nantucket, presents this workshop providing support for parents of spirited children. Focus will be on decreasing family stress and improving parent/child and sibling relationships. This support group for parents, made possible by Nantucket Community School, will be held on four Tuesday evenings, October 5, 12, 19, 26, 7:30-8:45 pm. $160. Please contact Nantucket Community School for registration.
Dr. Robert A. Weaver, III, Ph.D.
will speak at the
Multi-Lingual ADHD-Europe Conference, Friday, September 24, 2010
MIA Conference Center, 40 Rue Washington, 1040 Brussels
Educator, advocate, and clinical neuropsychologist, Dr. Weaver will present two sessions at the annual conference. “Teaching Our Students to Ask for What They Need: Self Advocacy and Self-Esteem” and "Personal Experiences with Dyslexia: Critical Ingredients for Success" are the topics of the presentations.
The Self Advocacy Method (SAM), developed by Dr. Weaver, uses an individual’s strengths, challenges, and compensatory strategies to develop Self Advocacy Skills. Self-esteem and feelings of empowerment increase as self advocacy skills are attained. The SAM program is adaptable for parents, students, and teachers, as well as pediatricians, psychologists, social workers, and other professionals.
Dr. Weaver welcomes schools, families, individuals, and/or professionals for webinars and Skype education and consultation. He has extensive experience with client relationships via international communication from the United States. Dr. Weaver conducts teacher training workshops, consult on school admissions, and help with challenging children in families and schools. Consultations and workshops are scheduled for one and a half hours, half day, or full day in the home, the school, or businesses, on a one-time or weekly basis.
State-of-the-art, non-medical therapies include:
- Education on strengths and liabilities of individuals with suspicion or diagnosis of a learning disability
- System of Fair Exchange: a behavior program to manage classroom and/or home stress
- Cognitive Dichotomy Therapy: focusing on increasing self reliance, responsibility, and independence
- Self-Advocacy/School Advocacy, which improves self-esteem, productivity, and success
Parent Support Groups will resume meeting in October 2010.
FREE Parent Support Group
for parents of children and adolescents with ADHD or learning differences.
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 7:00-8:30 pm.
Weaver Center, 30 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA.
All parents are welcome!
Are you looking for new perspectives on social issues and peer pressure? Do you think about how much you should help with homework, and how to get teachers to understand? How do you manage strong-willed children and help them succeed?
Today's parents are dealing with more pressure than ever in managing career and home. Come hear what other parents are doing and what seasoned child and family therapists have to offer.
Linda Blanco, LICSW, will facilitate. Linda has over 20 years experience helping families and children with learning differences, and leading successful parent groups.
Robert A. Weaver, III, Ph.D., Director of Weaver Center and Clinical Neuropsychologist, will answer questions.
For questions and to RSVP, please call 508-358-1112, ext. 210.
Parent Group continues on Tuesday evenings.
Dr. Laurie Cestnick presented at the MIT Learning & the Brain Conference on the “Modern Brain: Memory and Performance in this Distracting, Digital Age” on November 21, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. Dr. Cestnick’s topic was “How the Brain Reads: new theories from acquired and developmental dyslexias and implications for remediation in the visual age.” Findings from acquired and developmental dyslexic studies are examined and theories as to the neurobiology that underlie these phenomenom are discussed. New theories as to how the visual attention is represented in the brain in order to read in different ways are offered as are suggestions for remediation. The conference, scheduled for November 20-22, 2009, at the Marriott Hotel Cambridge and the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, was open to everyone.
Managing Your Children at Home: A Curse or a Delight - a presentation by Robert A. Weaver III, Ph.D, at the LDW annual conference in Burlington, MA, October 28-30, 2009. One of the most stressful problems at home is getting children with learning differences to initiate, stick with and complete low interest tasks, i.e.: homework, chores, cleaning up, etc. Dr. Weaver will present specific strategies for changing the curse of children's management into the delight of your children becoming more independent, responsible and enjoyable. This workshop is for parents, on Friday, October 30, 8:00-9:15 a.m. See www.ldworldwide.org/conferences for more information on the conference.
European AD/HD Awareness Week 2009: Multilingual AD/HD Awareness Conference, Saturday, September 26, 2009. Dr. Robert A. Weaver III, Neuropsychologist presents on "Getting What you Need When You Want It: Self-Advocacy and Accomodation." The conference provides information and resources from across Europe in English, French, Dutch and German.
Robert A. Weaver III, Ph.D., Clinical Neuropsychologist and Director of Weaver Center in Wayland, MA presents at the 17th Annual World Congress on Learning Disabilities presented by LDW (Learning Disabilities Worldwide) on November 8, 2008 at 12:30 pm. Dr. Weaver's topic is "Attention Deficit and Executive Function: A Curse and Delight." He provides a practical understanding and applicable strategies for home management, reducing stress and distress for you and your child.The LDW Conference takes place November 6-8, 2008 at the Burlington Marriott Hotel in Burlington, MA.
Helping Children Identify and Use Their Strengths. Robert A. Weaver III, Ph.D., presents on helping ADHD childrend identify and use their strengths to the AD-IN (Attention Deficit Information Network) of Plymouth, MA. Friday, November 7, 2008. 117 Long Pond Rd., Plymouth, MA.
Dr. Bonnie Scott Jelinek will lead a parents' group in understanding "How to Raise Resilient Children While Becoming Resilient Ourselves" on January 13, 2008. Dr. Jelinek's group is part of the Wellesley Hills Congregational Church's workshop for teens and parents entitled "Moving Toward Wholeness: How to create and maintain emotional well-being." Dr. Jelinek is a minister-at-large at the Hills Church, and Assistant Director and Therapist at Weaver Center in Wayland. She is also a Wellesley parent.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
For more information, please contact Liz Finlay, SNAC Chair via email liz@sanfordre.com
Forum: Executive Functioning Disorder forum
The Special Needs Advisory Council (SNAC), Nantucket’s Parent Advisory Council, is sponsoring a forum on Executive Functioning Disorder Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 7:00 PM in the Nantucket High School Auditorium. Robert A Weaver III, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist and Director of Weaver Clinic in Wayland, MA and Nantucket, will speak on Executive Function Disorder: Strategies for Improving Time Management, Organization and Problem-solving Abilities. Learn how one can develop processes to compensate for Executive Functioning Disorder, from prioritizing to task completion, and become a more effective contributor in school or the workplace.
For more information about the forum Executive Functioning Disorder or SNAC, please email Liz Finlay, SNAC Chair, liz@sanfordre.com.
January 28, 2007
To Friends of the Weaver Clinic and Our Surrounding Communities:
We have all been horrified, shocked and deeply saddened by another school-related tragedy - this time, of a violent student death at Lincoln-Sudbury High School. It affects all of us -the Lincoln/Sudbury/Natick communities, the surrounding Western suburbs, friends and relatives, those that we know and love.
The headlines read that "a violent fatal stabbing by a student with Asperger's occurred Friday" and the attention has, sadly, been on his Asperger's diagnosis as the "reason" for the tragedy. We may hear much more about this in the media as the defense lawyer may rely on "Asperger's" as acornerstone of his legal strategy.
The normal and understandable inability to fathom how such a tragedy could occur among our children often leads us, almost drives us, to search for any possible understanding of how such a tragedy could occur without warning, prevention, and care. Sometimes fault comes in the form of blaming culture, race, religion, ethnicity or socioeconomic class. But too often, amongstudent tragedies, a learning or developmental disorder becomes the focus.
We have read in the past of tragedies that were blamed on ADHD, impulsivity, dyslexia, nonverbal learning disabilities and in this tragic, violent death, Asperger's. It is critical for each of us to convey to anyone with whom we may discuss this tragedy that these neurological disorders do not cause violent behavior in children that are affected by these neurological differences. Whatever the origins of violent behavior, it is not specific to Asperger's. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual describing Asperger's there is not a reference to violent behavior. A child diagnosed with Asperger's may have unusual difficulties in understanding thecomplexity of interpersonal situations. Those diagnosed with Asperger's often misperceive or misconstrue the intentions of others, which can lead to ill-advised action in response to misperceptions. This is a situation where we recognize that all children, with a disability or not, need to be taken seriously.
These learning and processing deficits should be considered by all of us as significant difficulties in aptitudes that we are born with, or in some very unusual cases, acquire by neurological injury. This recent tragedy was no more caused by Asperger's alone, than by a student who has significant problems with any aptitude deficit -- social, academic or otherwise.
Can life be more stressful and complicated by such disorders? Yes it can. Such stress creates problems in judgment, emotion, behavior and thinking. Do the stresses cause violent behavior resulting in death or serious injury? No, they don't. Please keep in mind, in your thoughts, prayers, worries, apprehensions and discussions that it is extremely difficult, but very important, to understand such unimaginable tragedies as issues related to an individual who is very troubled from causes that we are, unfortunately, likely to never know. We should all know and convey to
others that Asperger's Syndrome is not the cause of this tragedy.
All of our hearts and prayers go out to the hundreds of families directly affected by this tragedy and to the thousands of us that are affected less directly. All of us at Weaver Clinic, want you to know that we are all doing whatever we can to support each other and our community with the knowledge, belief, and hope that the reasons for this and similar tragedies can someday be more accurately understood and prevented.
Dr. Robert A. Weaver III, Neuropsychologist and Director
Dr. Bonnie Scott Jelinek, Assistant Director
Weaver Clinic
30 Boston Post Road
Wayland, MA. 01778
508-358-1112
www.weaverclinic.com
"Anxiety and Depression in Children with Learning Disabilities: Strategies for Parents” - a presentation by Robert A. Weaver III, Ph.D, at the LDW annual conference in Burlington, MA, October 26-28, 2006. Dr Weaver will discuss strategies for parents dealing with anxiety and depression in children with ADHD, including techniques to relieve stress, build self-esteem, and motivate children to complete homework and re-join, or participate in, school and social activities. For more information on the conference, see:www.ldworldwide.org/conferences
Dr. Bonnie Scott Jelinek has been invited to join Dr. Anne Alonso, of Harvard/MGH and Dr. Priscilla Kauff of NYC to teach at Shanghai Mental Health Center in Shanghai, China the week of May 20-27, 2006. They will be teaching physicians and psychologists psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Dr. Alonso will be lecturing on her published works on Psychodynamic Theory and Shame. Both Drs. Kauff and Jelinek will join Dr.Alonso in teaching group therapy and providing supervision. They will also participate in case conferences and role play, and contribute to the lectures. Shanghai Mental Health Center, a teaching hospital with over 2000 beds, is one of the biggest multidiscipline psychiatric hospitals in China. Its functions cover quality mental health care, teaching, research, and prevention, as well as psychological counseling. Shanghai Mental Health Center is a World Health Organization collaborative center for research and training in mental health.
Empowering Your Child with Knowledge and Self-Advocacy Skills: The Self-Advocacy Model. The Plymouth AD-IN group heard Dr. Robert A. Weaver III, Director of Weaver Clinic, present and answer questions on May 12, 2006. Parents can help children learn to identify their strengths and self-advocate to get the most out of their school experiences. Dr. Weaver also presented to the Newton, MA PAC for Special Education on February 9, 2006 on Self-Advocacy and addressed parents’ concerns regarding homework issues and reducing stress at home.
Dr. Laurie Cestnick, who frequently speaks in the areas of reading, dyslexia, and cognitive neuroscience, presented her work on the“Neurobiology of Visual Attention: implications for learning and dyslexia” at the Learning & the Brain Conference in Cambridge, MA, April 30 - May2, 2006. This conference was for teachers, tutors, parents, and others interested in learning about relationships between the brain, creativity, learning and teaching. For more information on this conference, please see www.edupr.com
Dr. Robert A. Weaver, III, Director of Weaver Clinic, presented to the faculty of Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, NH on Learning Disabilites: Classroom Strategies for Success on February 23, 2006. Cardigan Mountain School’s mission is to bring out the full potential of every boy in the school. To meet that goal when there are students with learning differences, Dr. Weaver presented the “3 R’s of 2006: Relationship, Rigor, Relevance.
Dr. Bonnie Scott Jelinek participated in "Building a Resilient Generation of Students, Part II: Shaping Tomorrow's ResilientCitizen?" at Babson College on February 15, 2006. The forum was co-sponsored by Wellesley High School, Needham High School and Babson College. Dr. Jelinek was on a parent panel discussing the challenges facing students, parents and educators, and solutions for preparing them for the inevitable transitions in high school, in the process of college admission, and in shaping their future expectations. She spoke from the vantage point of a parent of 5 children, three of whom are out of college and two who are applying to colleges. She also provided insights from the point of view of being on the PTSO, and working with children and parents of students with ADHD and/or different learning styles as a psychotherapist at the Weaver Clinic. Also participating in the forum were Grant Gosselin- Associate Director of Admissions at Boston College, Deans from Babson and Wellesley College, high school seniors from Wellesley and Needham and other high school parents. Participating in Part I of the forum were Rachel Reiser, Babson Lead Class Dean, Rob Evans, Director- Human Relations Services, Tom Hughart, WHS Director of Guidance, and Dan Rubin, WHS Guidance Counselor.
NEWS RELEASE
Date: October 14, 2005 For Immediate Release
Contact: Heather Wilcox, Development Officer
Phone: 613-238-5721
E-mail: heather@ldac-taac.ca
Empower Yourself or Your Child
American psychologist with dyslexia and AD/HD brings his self-advocacy talk to Ottawa Oct. 20
With a childhood filled with brushes with the law and struggles at school, American psychologist Dr. Robert A. Weaver III of the Weaver Clinic in Weston, Mass. is a testament to what persons with learning disabilities (LD), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (AD/HD) can accomplish through self-advocacy.
Finally diagnosed with dyslexia before entering high school, Weaver – who brings his “Empower Yourself or Your Child” self-advocacy seminar to Ottawa this Thursday, Oct. 20 – recognizes that diagnosis as seminal to his decision to change his life’s direction.
“I was told I was intelligent which I did not accept,” says Weaver, “but at least knowing I was dyslexic helped me to explain why I did not do well in school.”
Weaver believes people with LD or AD/HD must be able to manage their learning, behavior and emotions themselves efficiently, and they must be able to advocate for themselves effectively.
“This is what creates confidence and success,” says Weaver.
Organized by the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (LDAC), Dr. Weaver’s address is suitable for teenagers and adults with LD and AD/HD, as well as parents of children with these disorders.
“Dr. Weaver’s presentation will provide guests with an understanding of the self-advocacy and assertiveness skills they’ll need to help them succeed at school, at work, and in life,” says LDAC Executive Director Pauline Mantha.
Still unable to read or write after graduating high school, Weaver attended the American College of Switzerland, where, with the help of his classmates and the encouragement of his English professor, he finally mastered these fundamental skills.
Determined to help others with learning disabilities, Weaver transferred to Maine’s Bowdoin College to study psychology, graduating Cum Laude in 1973. He went on to receive his master’s degree in cognitive psychology from St. John’s Memorial University and followed with his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley, in 1980. Weaver completed his Harvard University Fellowship in Neuropsychology at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, with a specialty in learning disabilities. After providing eight years of support to children, families and teachers at the Carroll School for students with dyslexia in Lincoln, Mass., he opened his own practice, the Weaver Clinic, for children and adults with learning disabilities and AD/HD in Weston, Mass. in 1985.
“Empower Yourself or Your Child to Interact with the World” will be held on Thursday, Oct. 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Jules Leger Centre, 281 Lanark Avenue in Westboro. Tickets cost $25 and may be purchased at the door, or by phoning LDAC at 238-5721.
The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada is a national volunteer-led nonprofit organization working to level the playing field for the one-in-10 Canadians with learning disabilities and those who support them through advocacy, research, resource develop-ment, public awareness campaigns, programs, and services. |
ADHD and Executive Function: Worries/Benefits and Self-Advocacy Development in Our Children. A presentation by Robert A. Weaver III, Ph.D. will be made at the Learning Disabilities Worldwide 2005 Conference to be held October 28-29, 2005 at the Burlington Marriott, Burlington, MA.
For more information see: www.ldworldwide.org.
"Teaching Our Students with ADHD to Ask for What They Need"
Having a different learning style from one's peers makes learning a challenge. Finding an alternative teaching style that works for students with ADHD must be the common goal of parents and teachers. When students can speak up and ask for what they need at school, they are more likely to meet with academic and social success. Robert A Weaver III, Ph.D., discusses self-advocacy skills and how to build them. He will take questions from students and parents concerning this topic. March 22, 2005 at Carver High School.
Robert A. Weaver III, Ph.D., Neuropsychologist and Director of Weaver Clinic, will lead open discussions focusing on Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adults at the following Open Houses to be held Monday evenings, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m., at the Inn at Silver Lake, Silver Lake Commons, in Kingston, MA. Attendance is open to parents, professionals and school personnel. Admission is free.
February 7, 2005: Learning Styles: Self Advocacy and Self Esteem
March 7, 2005: Learning Styles: Getting the Best from Your School
April 4, 2005: Learning Styles: Reducing Stress/Behavioral Systems for Home and School
May 2, 2005: Attention Deficit Disorder: Sibling/Extended Family Issues
June 6, 2005: Attention Deficit Disorder: Social Issues and Improving Social Success
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